Student Led Conferences will be held this Friday, January 27. ALL Students should be in attendance. The conferences help students fulfill their end of the semester requirement for the KCS 21st skills. This is a credit activity.
Selected adults, other than Leslie or me, will ask students about their portfolios and the year thus far. Interested parents are welcome to attend, but will be asked to sit on the periphery of the action until the end of the question/answer session. Then, the parents are free, to question the students, with questions of their own. If parents plan to attend, please be on time.
The students should arrive at 9 am. They will prepare for the conferences, have snack, and conferences will begin at 10:15. Dismissal will be at 11:30.
PLEASE BRING:
For those students who did not bring in their Composition Books to show me that you have been doing your ON YOUR OWN, based on the Map Essentials Geography Workbook, PLEASE BRING. I need to give you credit for your progress report.
Don't FORGET to practice your conference questions that you took home last Wednesday.
Class time will be shortened for Wednesday so that students can take part in Student Led Conferences. Students should arrive at 9 am, and should be picked up at 11:30. Bring a snack. There will be no lunch.
Parents are welcome to attend the conferences from 10:15-11:30. If you plan to come, please be on time. However, the students will be seated at a conference table with an adult, other than Leslie or me. The adults will include teachers, our director, and possibly a Board member. Parents are welcome to sit on the periphery to watch the students share their portfolios with the adults and their peers. At the end of the activity, parents can ask students questions about their work.
Take Note - Friday, January 20 is the last day to enter k12 work into the on line system. Percentages for grades will be calculated according to what has been entered into the system on January 20, 2012.
Please Bring to Class:
3 ring binder
Sheet protectors/dividers
Work for portfolio
Finished reflections (that you worked on last Friday)
Any other items that you would like to include in your portfolio
We will assemble the portfolio in class. Please refer to the scoring guide.
Click here: 7/8 Semester 1 Portfolio Rubric
Call or email me with your questions.
PLEASE BRING: Research Paper DUE!!!
Please see Ms. Leslie's blog for information regarding portfolio assembly. All class work and work samples from home, that students plan to assemble on Wednesday, should be in class along with the binder, sheet protectors, and dividers. One binder will be used for all subjects, Ms. Leslie's and Ms. Pam's. No need to have a separate binder for each teacher.
I am postponing the Map Essentials Activity 10, and the review test until February 1. There simply is not enough time in class to include this with the portfolio assembly.
If you have any questions, give me a call, or send me an email.
MAHALO
Please Bring:
By this time you should have begun to organize your k12 work samples that you have been saving at home. Bring in the pieces that you plan to put into your portfolio. Next week we will be assemblying all your work in your three ring binder. Please DO NOT bring your binder this Friday unless you plan to solely use it to carry in your work. You will have to take it home once class is over. I have no place to store it for you.
Until this semester ends on January 20, and the student led conferences are held on January 27, classes will be made up of a potpourri of wrap-up activities to support student success to mark the end of first semester.
Feel free to email me with questions.
